#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark 'cmpthese'; use Test::More tests => 2; our @data = qw 'foo123 abdbdr23 abcd2 abc 1234 foo!123'; our (@plain, @sticky); my @expected = ([qw 'foo 123'], [qw 'abdbdr 23'], [qw 'abcd 2'], ['abc', ''], ['', 1234], []); cmpthese -1, { plain => '@plain = map {[/^([a-z]*)(\d*)$/]} @data', sticky => '@sticky = map {[/^(\w*?)(\d*)$/]} @data', }; is_deeply \@plain, \@expected; is_deeply \@sticky, \@expected; __END__ 1..2 Rate sticky plain sticky 32582/s -- -17% plain 39385/s 21% -- ok 1 ok 2